Hey guys i just bought the game and it's pretty fun just messing around and stuff so far. Great game,. But now i;m seriously trying to get into the game... Can you guys relay me the most vital things I need to be doing to get the most out of this game? the monsters are REALLY kicking my ass... This games a bit overwhelming at first haha
Here are some tips:
1: Get a light source.
2: learn how to use F3 (or on mac FN + F3 at the same time.)
3: make a house/tunnel/cave/anything you can live in.
4: You can use wood in a furnace to smelt things. Also if you smelt raw wood you get charcoal. (A way to make torches)
5: Get 3 wool from sheep to make a bed.
6: mine find diamonds
7: get diamond pick.
8: go to nether
9: Then you should be fine from there!
10: most importantly! have fun!
Those are my beginner tips. oh also watch a lets play of minecraft! that helps too. hope i helped!
Here are some tips:
1: Get a light source.
2: learn how to use F3 (or on mac FN + F3 at the same time.)
3: make a house/tunnel/cave/anything you can live in.
4: You can use wood in a furnace to smelt things. Also if you smelt raw wood you get charcoal. (A way to make torches)
5: Get 3 wool from sheep to make a bed.
6: mine find diamonds
7: get diamond pick.
8: go to nether
9: Then you should be fine from there!
10: most importantly! have fun!
Those are my beginner tips. oh also watch a lets play of minecraft! that helps too. hope i helped!
Yep! It helps a lot. I have a warehouse with 5 chests for every kind of material, collectible, and item, all organized in alphabetical order. I mean, you don't have to go that far, but it helps to at least have signs above your chests, and chests for specific things.
Don't get lost. Every time you load up your world, look at which direction your clouds are heading. Use that knowledge to help you find your way back home, should you ever get lost.
Farm. A lot. Mushroom farms are the most fruitful, as the mushroom stew restores 5 hearts, and is very easy to make. Also, with the current version of the game, mushrooms spread at a faster rate than later versions.
Only use iron pickaxes for mining blocks that you can only mine with an iron pickaxe. For any other block, just use a stone pickaxe. If you need to mine diamond or something, switch to your iron. This way, you'll not run out of your precious materials so easily. Besides, you'll mine enough cobblestone with one stone pickaxe to make 10+ more stone pickaxes... sooo...
Anyway, just some basic tips, I suppose. You probably already knew all of them =)
Play on peaceful and don't listen to the people that may call you a wuss (had to censor myself). No one likes getting their house destroyed by creepers, and if the monsters are kicking your ass, wait until you have some pretty decent stuff and then turn off peaceful and play on a difficulty.
This is all well and good at first but after awhile give Normal difficulty a shot. It adds freshness to the game when you suddenly have to fight monsters. You definitely will die a lot at first, but with some experience, you'll begin to be able to predict your enemies and disable them with ease. It's a thrilling experience when you survive your first night of constant battle intact.
-Sneak(R3) when near ledges
-Save often
-If you go to sleep as soon as you can no Mobs will get a chance to spawn in
-2 blocks deep of water will cushion your fall. Its always nice to have a quick exit from a tall building.
-placing a ladder on a wall will prevent water from moving across that block, creating a water barrier.
-Keep your main storage warehouse very secure, well lit, and isolated away from other items and creations. You dont wanna play 5,200 item pickup when a creeper crawls out of the woodwork.
-My preferred food before 1.8 is Pork because of the many spawns of pigs and how much it heals. Mushroom stew is nice also but mushroom farms can be dangerous if not automated. After 1.8 update bread is nice due to the ease of creating farms and ability to stack food.
-I also always liked to create a large homemade wall keeping Mobs out of my main playing/building area or city. Keeping the grounds well lit inside the wall will keep your area pretty safe no matter what difficulty your playing on.
-Create large, tall structures that overlook your lands. The views you get at nighttime and thunderstorms is compleatly worth it! :]
1) When mining deep underground, treat the block of value (i.e gold or diamond) as though it is open heart surgery, with precise care. Dig below it, dig behind it. Some blocks can be perched directly above or in front of lava. If a block falls into lava, it will be destroyed.
2) Never let yourself be without wood planks. Wood planks are most important for tools, which all require sticks to make. They also serve for torches and craft tables. Ive made the unfortunate choice of mining without any back-up wood....I had to dig myself out by hand, and it took me almost an hour
3) Always save before entering a cave, and in at least 20 minute intervals. Nothing is worse than losing all of your possessions in lava. Not only does everything burn to ash in the lava, but you restart without a map, as well.
4) When chopping down wood, remember to return to the spot to collect the saplings. Each tree can yield as many as 8 saplings, which you plant for a new generation of trees. My map started off with just under 20 trees (not a lot at all), and I now have almost 200 (excluding the additional 200 Ive cut down) in 2 days of playing.
Whenever I came across something I didn't know, I looked it up there and found a TON of information on it, and I quickly picked up on the basics. Sometimes the information you'll find doesn't necessarily pertain to the current version the xbox is on, but that's easy enough to find out when you try something.
I'm now onto learning redstone circuitry, as apparently "primitive" it is in 1.6.6(Current xbox version)
As a freebie tip: Don't try to sleep in a bed in the nether.
When exploring a cave formation, don't get lost.... if your lost and die, you will have a hard time finding all your gear. Store your equipment regularily in chests in your shelter. Make sure you save your world file after every major ore haul.
1. When I start a new world, or rather try a new seed, I always start in Peaceful mode. I mine some wood and try to find a couple of sheep for 3x wool, build a crafting table, a bed, and a couple of boats. Then I start "quick-exploring" the world, meaning I travel around uncovering the map to see if it has a nice landscape, varied biomes (my first three worlds were all covered in snow/ice to at least 50% - boring), etc. When night falls, simply put down the bed wherever you are and sleep until morning so you don't have to travel in the dark. If I like the world/seed, I quit without saving, delete that world, think of a fitting name for it, and use that seed again.
2. If you're playing on Easy or higher difficulty but don't want monsters to spawn on the overworld, go to sleep very early. You can start sleeping while the sun is still halfway above the horizon, but monsters won't spawn until a bit later. So if you go to sleep early enough, no monsters!
3. An easy way to gain gunpowder is to build a V-shaped trap out of cacti. It has to be two blocks high, and I strongly suggest that each side is at least four to five blocks long. Then find a Creeper and lure him to the upper (open) end of the V, run past the V on the outside to its tip. The Creeper will enter the V at the open side and stab itself to death on the cacti.
4. If you're planning to go on extented mining expeditions underground, I suggest you always take a spare crafting table and at least one 64-stack of wooden planks with you. Since you're going to use A LOT of stone pickaxes/shovels, it's nice to put down the crafting table wherever you need, make some new tools on the fly, and pick the crafting table up again.
5. If you encounter high/large desposits of gravel, you can easily mine them by putting a torch on the floor below them before removing the last block that keeps the gravel in place. Once the gravel drops onto the torch, it'll instantly transform itself into gravel items you just have to pick up without mining them first. I'm not sure if that works for sand as well (haven't tried), but I wouldn't be surprised if it did.
Start a wheat farm early. It may be hard to start one but once it gets going it is a great asset to have.
Place your bed so it is not touching any walls.
There is currently a bug that may cause monsters to spawn in your house when you try to sleep in a bed touching any walls.
The game is actually fairly straightforward once you get passed the first couple of nights alive even on the hardest difficulties.
if and when you find a "dungeon", (cages with spinning pigs inside them), light up the area and go find a video on youtube on how to make a mob trap
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1: Get a light source.
2: learn how to use F3 (or on mac FN + F3 at the same time.)
3: make a house/tunnel/cave/anything you can live in.
4: You can use wood in a furnace to smelt things. Also if you smelt raw wood you get charcoal. (A way to make torches)
5: Get 3 wool from sheep to make a bed.
6: mine find diamonds
7: get diamond pick.
8: go to nether
9: Then you should be fine from there!
10: most importantly! have fun!
Those are my beginner tips. oh also watch a lets play of minecraft! that helps too. hope i helped!
My tips, never dig straight up or straight down.
Don't get lost. Every time you load up your world, look at which direction your clouds are heading. Use that knowledge to help you find your way back home, should you ever get lost.
Farm. A lot. Mushroom farms are the most fruitful, as the mushroom stew restores 5 hearts, and is very easy to make. Also, with the current version of the game, mushrooms spread at a faster rate than later versions.
Only use iron pickaxes for mining blocks that you can only mine with an iron pickaxe. For any other block, just use a stone pickaxe. If you need to mine diamond or something, switch to your iron. This way, you'll not run out of your precious materials so easily. Besides, you'll mine enough cobblestone with one stone pickaxe to make 10+ more stone pickaxes... sooo...
Anyway, just some basic tips, I suppose. You probably already knew all of them =)
Oh yes! That's a very useful tip.
I didn't find this out until after like 4 days of playing =(
This is all well and good at first but after awhile give Normal difficulty a shot. It adds freshness to the game when you suddenly have to fight monsters. You definitely will die a lot at first, but with some experience, you'll begin to be able to predict your enemies and disable them with ease. It's a thrilling experience when you survive your first night of constant battle intact.
-Sneak(R3) when near ledges
-Save often
-If you go to sleep as soon as you can no Mobs will get a chance to spawn in
-2 blocks deep of water will cushion your fall. Its always nice to have a quick exit from a tall building.
-placing a ladder on a wall will prevent water from moving across that block, creating a water barrier.
-Keep your main storage warehouse very secure, well lit, and isolated away from other items and creations. You dont wanna play 5,200 item pickup when a creeper crawls out of the woodwork.
-My preferred food before 1.8 is Pork because of the many spawns of pigs and how much it heals. Mushroom stew is nice also but mushroom farms can be dangerous if not automated. After 1.8 update bread is nice due to the ease of creating farms and ability to stack food.
-I also always liked to create a large homemade wall keeping Mobs out of my main playing/building area or city. Keeping the grounds well lit inside the wall will keep your area pretty safe no matter what difficulty your playing on.
-Create large, tall structures that overlook your lands. The views you get at nighttime and thunderstorms is compleatly worth it! :]
2) Never let yourself be without wood planks. Wood planks are most important for tools, which all require sticks to make. They also serve for torches and craft tables. Ive made the unfortunate choice of mining without any back-up wood....I had to dig myself out by hand, and it took me almost an hour
3) Always save before entering a cave, and in at least 20 minute intervals. Nothing is worse than losing all of your possessions in lava. Not only does everything burn to ash in the lava, but you restart without a map, as well.
4) When chopping down wood, remember to return to the spot to collect the saplings. Each tree can yield as many as 8 saplings, which you plant for a new generation of trees. My map started off with just under 20 trees (not a lot at all), and I now have almost 200 (excluding the additional 200 Ive cut down) in 2 days of playing.
Whenever I came across something I didn't know, I looked it up there and found a TON of information on it, and I quickly picked up on the basics. Sometimes the information you'll find doesn't necessarily pertain to the current version the xbox is on, but that's easy enough to find out when you try something.
I'm now onto learning redstone circuitry, as apparently "primitive" it is in 1.6.6(Current xbox version)
As a freebie tip: Don't try to sleep in a bed in the nether.
2. If you're playing on Easy or higher difficulty but don't want monsters to spawn on the overworld, go to sleep very early. You can start sleeping while the sun is still halfway above the horizon, but monsters won't spawn until a bit later. So if you go to sleep early enough, no monsters!
3. An easy way to gain gunpowder is to build a V-shaped trap out of cacti. It has to be two blocks high, and I strongly suggest that each side is at least four to five blocks long. Then find a Creeper and lure him to the upper (open) end of the V, run past the V on the outside to its tip. The Creeper will enter the V at the open side and stab itself to death on the cacti.
4. If you're planning to go on extented mining expeditions underground, I suggest you always take a spare crafting table and at least one 64-stack of wooden planks with you. Since you're going to use A LOT of stone pickaxes/shovels, it's nice to put down the crafting table wherever you need, make some new tools on the fly, and pick the crafting table up again.
5. If you encounter high/large desposits of gravel, you can easily mine them by putting a torch on the floor below them before removing the last block that keeps the gravel in place. Once the gravel drops onto the torch, it'll instantly transform itself into gravel items you just have to pick up without mining them first. I'm not sure if that works for sand as well (haven't tried), but I wouldn't be surprised if it did.
Start a wheat farm early. It may be hard to start one but once it gets going it is a great asset to have.
Place your bed so it is not touching any walls.
There is currently a bug that may cause monsters to spawn in your house when you try to sleep in a bed touching any walls.
The game is actually fairly straightforward once you get passed the first couple of nights alive even on the hardest difficulties.